The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.

Metaphysical practices and beliefs vary depending on the person, but each practice has become a large part of the Asheville ...

late night drive home began as a lo-fi garage project, recalibrating their nostalgia for 2000s indie rock into viral hits. With their debut album, As I Watch My Life Online, the El Paso outfit are ...

Wisp played her first Coachella last weekend, where she ran through a handful of favorites (including last month’s “The Sword”). Toward the end of her otherworldly set, she debuted two songs ...

Imagine walking into Petra, Jordan without the hustle and bustle of tourists clamoring over each other for photos and mule ...

Archaeologists recently made the first discovery of a Teotihuacan-style altar within a Maya city. The find offers early evidence of the intermingling of two cultures, offering insight into ...

Included in the discovery were horns on the pagan altar which had been "intentionally truncated." A latrine was also found at the site. It was built as a purely symbolic statement. It was a ...

People might get ideas when they saw that aristocrats died ... a nice pagan city. Plenty of pagan altars. All the stuff he wanted. And had to go up to Jerusalem where all these Jews were ...

Cardinals attend a mass at the St Peter’s basilica before the start of the conclave in March 2013 - GABRIEL BOUYS/AFP ...

My Catholic paternal grandmother—my primary caregiver as a young child—regularly made pseudo-sacred relics, pagan style ... where he was an altar boy and involved in youth group; then ...